Looking for advice in increasing Space DPS

[Mark Speed]

I'm looking for help in increasing my Space DPS.  

I can't say exactly what it is, but to me it has seemed "low" in many STF's and the Delta Rising Expansion missions since I upgraded to the Phantom Intel Escort.  I've been in several PUG's lately where someone runs a DPS parser and I am always either 4th or 5th in the group in DPS.  In the most recent Argala run I did a total of 14M damage (not DPS) and was #4 of 5; the top 2 in terms of damage did over 30M damage each during the run in comparison.

 

Below is the link to my build.

http://skillplanner.stoacademy.com/?build=markspeedescort_0

Some notes:

1) I do plan on replacing the forward Tetryon dual cannon with the R&D Tetryon Dual Heavy Cannon (ARC) in ~3 days once my Cannon crafting is high enough.  

2) I've invested a lot of my Fleet Credits and Dil into the fleet gear I have - I'm not completely averse to replacing my Fleet weapons but would prefer not to.

3) Between all of my toons, I am Level 15+ in every R&D skill EXCEPT Cannons, which I'll be in 3 days, so I can craft any R&D item I need to.

4) I've grown attached to the Phantom and don't want to replace it with a different ship... at least for now.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[Morgan Shackelford]

Plasma doping.  Not sure what Cryptic's take on this is, or whether they will adjust for it, but from what I understand people are running multiple Fleet Embassy science consoles that grant +Plasma damage to non-plasma weapons and stacking them with +Beam consoles because apparently the plasma procs can significantly boost dps.  Then if you boost everything to mk 14 gold, that's how you get to the 30k dps (that and level a romulan, buy a scimitar, and stack your bridge crew with SRO's).

[davisjm0311]

If you take the torp off the back and use 5 Tac consoles it will increase your dps by quite a bit.

[Mark Speed]

Thanks.  I compared the Assimilated console to a Tactical Vulnerability console and the Crit Chance and 33.9% more tetryon damage - hadn't thought of ditching the Borg console since it was such a mainstay of mine for a long time.  Will also spend the time grinding gear to Mk XIV Gold.

[Ryo Himura]

sparrow794 wrote:

Plasma doping.  Not sure what Cryptic's take on this is, or whether they will adjust for it, but from what I understand people are running multiple Fleet Embassy science consoles that grant +Plasma damage to non-plasma weapons and stacking them with +Beam consoles because apparently the plasma procs can significantly boost dps.  Then if you boost everything to mk 14 gold, that's how you get to the 30k dps (that and level a romulan, buy a scimitar, and stack your bridge crew with SRO's).

 This! Though I would read into it more as it is said (rumors...) that cryptic might be doing away with this, so double check before wasting dil and credits like I did.

[Ryo Himura]

Mark Speed wrote:

Thanks.  I compared the Assimilated console to a Tactical Vulnerability console and the Crit Chance and 33.9% more tetryon damage - hadn't thought of ditching the Borg console since it was such a mainstay of mine for a long time.  Will also spend the time grinding gear to Mk XIV Gold.

 I would keep the assimilated console and add the kinetic cutting beam in place of the rear torpedo to get the set bonus and have constant kinetic damage pouring out.

My cutter isn't mk 14 gold but I've seen a few and they do good dps.